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The overall objectives of the project are to examine “how software makes a difference to contemporary urbanism”, and to analyze the city with “respect to four key urban practices - understanding, managing, working, and living in the city”.

What can be done with Open Data?

1.
D/Public Expenditure and reform, Government Buildings,
Merrion Street, Dublin 2
Conference Room 0.2, South Block
2.00pm, Wednesday 11 February 2015
Tracey P. Lauriault and Rob Kitchin
Programmable City Project, NIRSA, Maynooth University
Open Data Seminar
Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
What can be done
with Open Data?

4.
MIT Press 2011 Sage 2014
Aim of the ERC
project is to build
off and extend a
decade of work that
culminated in
Code/Space book
(MIT Press) with a set
of detailed empirical
studies
Aim

5.
Objectives
How is the city translated into software and data?
How do software and data reshape the city?
Translation:
City into Code/Data
Transduction:
Code/Data Reshapes City
THE CITYSOFTWARE
Discourses, Practices, Knowledge, Models
Mediation, Augmentation, Facilitation, Regulation

6.
Sub-Projects
Translation:
City into code & data
Transduction:
Code & data reshape city
Understanding the
city
(Knowledge)
How are digital data materially &
discursively supported & processed
about cities & their citizens?
(Tracey, PdR)
How does software drive public
policy development &
implementation?
(Bob /Aoife PhDs)
Managing
the city
(Governance)
How are discourses & practices of
city governance translated into code?
How is software used to regulate &
govern city life? (Jim, PhD)
Working
in the city
(Production)
How is the geography & political
economy of software production
organised? (Alan, PhD)
How does software alter the form
& nature of work? (Leighton, PdR)
Living
in the city
(Social Politics)
How is software discursively
produced & legitimated by vested
interests? (Darach, PhD)
How does software transform the
spatiality & spatial behaviour of
individuals? (Sung-Yueh, PdR)
Creating the
smart city
Dublin Dashboard (Gavin, PdR)

12.
Transportation Applications
http://www.dublinbus.ie/en/rtpi/sources-of-real-time-information
http://www.apps4ottawa.ca
/en/apps/68
“In Transit” part of the Cabspotting program run by the Exploratorium, using
data from Yellow Cab and visualisations Stamen Design - See more at:
http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/12/26/mapping-infrastructure-
and-flow/#sthash.qar3OcMV.dpuf

26.
The Dublin Dashboard includes:
• real-time information
• time-series indicator data
• & interactive maps about all aspects of
the city
Benefits:
• detailed, up to date intelligence about
the city that aids everyday decision
making and fosters evidence-informed
analysis.
Freely available data sources:
• Dublin City Council
• Dublinked
• Central Statistics Office
• Eurostat
• government departments
• links to a variety of existing
applications
Produced by:
• The Programmable City project
• All-Island research Observatory (AIRO)
at Maynooth University
• working with Dublin City Council
Funded by :
• the European Research Council (ERC)
• Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)

27.
Why produce a Dublin Dashboard?
• To answer the following questions:
• How well is Dublin performing?
• What’s happening in the city right now?
• Where are the nearest facilities to me?
• What are the patterns of population, employment,
crime, housing, etc in the city?
• What are the future development plans?
• How do I report issues about the city?
• How can I freely access data about the city?

28.
Logic & principles
• Provides practical, useful, accessible city intelligence to public,
government and companies to aid everyday decision making,
evidence-informed debate, and policy formulation
• Pull together data about all aspects of the city – including real-
time info - from as many sources as possible (e.g., DCC,
Dublinked, CSO, Eurostat, govt depts)
• Select data that are:
• systematic and continuous in operation and coverage
• timely and traceable over time
• Data displayed through an analytical dashboard that uses
interactive data visualisations that require no a priori knowledge
to use
• Produced as a platform that leverages existing resources and
encourages new app development.
• The data are open for others to use and re-work.

30.
Next steps
• The Dashboard is extensive, but far from finished
• It is an on-going project and we are working on:
• adding more real-time data
• extending indicator/benchmarking data and mapping modules
• opening up more datasets and encouraging new data
generation, more geo-referencing of data, and better ways to
share data (APIs, machine-readable)
• adding new modules: city snapshot, social media, modelling
(needs investment), links to city apps
• translating for mobile platforms (e.g. tablet/smartphone
apps)
• encouraging others to leverage data and add new apps
• We’re interested in working with any interested parties
to help develop Dashboard further or to implement it for
different places

31.
www.dublindashboard.ie
https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/progcity
@ProgCity
Acknowledgements
Programmable City project research is funded by a European Research Council Advanced Investigator award
(ERC-2012-AdG-323636-SOFTCITY).
"Great cities embrace the data ... they are not defensive
about it ... they improve" Louisville Mayor, Greg Fischer